Arts in Brief: HPAC announces lineup for new season

Also, Jerusalem to host International Video-Dance Festival.

By HELEN KAYE, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
HPAC announces lineup for new season
The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet anchors the dance season, the pride of the Herzliya Performing Arts Center (HPAC) for its 2010-11 performing arts calendar. Santa Fe, making its Israeli debut, is both a classical and contemporary dance company whose list of choreographers embraces such as William Forsythe and Twyla Tharp.
Also on the roster is William Parsons company, which is making a return visit with six pieces from its repertoire, Batsheva Dance with a new work by Ohad Naharin, and the Inbal Pinto Avashalom Pollak company with a collage taken from their own works, including the one they made for Pilobolus in the US.
Mixing dance and music, versatile pianist composer Gil Shohat will present a series, titled “When Music Impels Dance,” that teams up great works of classical music with the dance pieces they have inspired via concerts, lectures, videos and meetings with local artists.
Theater offers the best to come from our repertory theaters, such as Railroad to Damascus from Habima and Scapin from the Khan, while the classical music series offers nine programs played by the Jerusalem, Haifa and Rishon Lezion symphony orchestras featuring local and international conductors and soloists such as our own Noam Sheriff.
Additionally there’s a world music series, the Sounds of Sabbath concerts, Dan Almagor presenting a Hebrew song series, a children’s quality theater program for ages 3-5 and 6-9, taken from the repertoire of such as the Orna Porat Theater for Children and Youth.
For more info: www.hoh-herzliya.co.il.     • Helen Kaye
J’lem to host Int’l Video-Dance Festival
 
The International Video-Dance Festival 2010, formerly in Tel Aviv, has moved to the School of Visual Arts in Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood where it takes place May 25-27. As a participant in the Under the Mountain initiative, it is also part of this year’s Israel Festival.
The multi-disciplinary program, from 12:30 to 11:00 p.m., features artists from here and abroad, and offers, besides workshops, forums of various kinds and dance-related movies from around the world. There will be two programs every evening, each comprising four shows.
Tickets go for NIS 50 for an entire day, including the shows. The performances alone cost NIS 20-30. For a full program, see www.hahar.co.il or www.visualtheater.co.il.
 
    • Jerusalem Post staff